Tag: Landscapes of Extraction
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The Open Wounds of Mount Ida
in EssaysMount Ida, Turkey, is becoming a sacrifice zone for copper extraction driven by global green and digital transitions. Zeynep Nettekoven explores how the struggle of local communities and environmental activists reveals the ecological and cultural costs of extractivism
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Saharanism and the Myth of the Empty Desert: Five Questions for Brahim El Guabli
in InterviewsWhat happens when we imagine the desert as empty? Gustavo Sanchez-Bachman talks with Brahim El Guabli about his book Desert Imaginations: A History of Saharanism and Its Radical Consequences. Their conversation explores “Saharanism” and the people and ecologies obscured by dominant desert imaginaries.
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Humanizing Migrants and Miners of Southern Africa
in ExhibitsIn this exhibit, Christopher Conz and Christina Balch use archival materials and art to humanize the stories of migrant mining workers of southern Africa and reflect on the environments in which they live, work, die, and resist.
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Unruly Sediments
Jac Common & Katy Lewis Hood trace marine aggregates dredging in UK coastal waters across multiple scales, arguing that this extractive industry needs to be situated in colonial and capitalist ocean histories and presents.
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Werewolves Within is the Pipeline Horror Film You Didn’t Know You Needed
in ReviewsWerewolves and petro-masculinity and extractive capitalism, oh my! In this review of a recent horror-comedy film, Addie Hopes and Richelle Wilson examine an overlooked aspect of the story. Where pipelines go, murder follows.
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Traces of Industry in the Trees of Jefferson National Forest
in EssaysChelsea Fisher follows the entangled histories of iron and paper in a second-growth forest.
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How COVID is Reconfiguring Labor in Extractive Industries
in EssaysThe COVID-19 pandemic has upended global circuits of resource extraction. Brian Ikaika Klein, Stephanie Postar, Laura Dev, Hilary Faxon, and Matthew Libassi tell the story of a gold-filled suitcase to show how.
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At the Mouth of the Menominee River: A Conversation with Anahkwet (Guy Reiter)
Anahkwet (Guy Reiter) discusses how Menominee language, culture, and history shape his work protecting the Menominee and Wolf Rivers.
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Finding Connection and Resisting Extraction in Quarantine Gaming
in EssaysDuring the COVID-19 pandemic, video games offered Nat Mesnard and many others an escape from isolation. But the false promise of endless productivity in factory building games like Satisfactory ensnared them in a myth of capitalist “progress.”
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On Ojibwe Lands, Protecting Water and Life from the Line 3 Pipeline
in CommentaryThe new Enbridge Line 3 pipeline poses a slew of threats on treaty land. Ojibwe people lead the movement against its construction in Minnesota.